(If you don’t know what I’m talking about then go here and then come back. We’ll wait. Done? Awesome. Back to the blog post already in session.)

I really struggled choosing the title for this book because I wanted something unique and fun, but also serious and weird and basically encompassing all of the bizarro things that were going through my mind when I created it, and that’s not exactly easy to stuff into a single line. In the last year I came up with a ton of different title ideas but none of them ever seemed quite right.

Here were a few contenders:

Completely and Fantastically Lost: An Obscure Guidebook For Misfits and Strangelings

Feeling Stabby: A sophisticated coloring book to soothe troublesome minds

THIS IS BULLSHIT: A handbook for life.

Get Lost. (But in a good way. Inside your head. Or in this book. Whatever. I’m not telling you what to do. STOP YELLING AT ME.)

I’m Not Allowed To Have Matches (And Other Things I’ve Learned): A coloring journal for creative vandals, notorious scribblers and incurable weirdos.

I JUST WANT MY BRAIN TO STOP BEING AN ASSHOLE: An illustrated journey for the similarly confused

Vandals Needed. See Inside.

THE BIBLE (PART 3)

None were quite right. But I kept coming back to this specific thought I’d had so often when I was creating the drawings. If my head was in a bad place I’d remind myself that I just had to live through that exact temporary moment that I was in because eventually I’d pull out of the haze. And if my head was in a good place I’d remind myself to stop and appreciate the moment I was in…to live in it and celebrate it rather than worry about the future or the past. And when my brain went missing I’d remind myself that I was still real and that I would come back to myself. That I was still here…even when I felt I wasn’t. And that I wasn’t alone because you were here too. Maybe not in person, but in spirit…you were alive in the moment with me, whether you knew it or not. Whether you were struggling or thriving or feeling lost.

It won’t come out for quite a while but until then I’ll be sharing other drawings here to thank you for being so supportive and for making me feel so much less alone. For reminding me that I am here. And for being here with me.

If you want to preorder you can do that here and then it’ll be a lovely surprise present to yourself if your memory is as faulty as mine. Also, it’ll be a lovely surprise to me because I have no idea how this sort of book will do and I really, really hope you like it.

PS. Thank you. You have no clue how many times you’ve saved me. I don’t know where I’d be without you, but I’m so grateful to be right here with you now.

PPS. A behind-the-scenes bonus: I was only halfway done when I took this picture but this is what my lap looks like late at night…with a sketch pad and a variety of animals trying to make my life difficult.

Me: I’m drawing here. Dorothy Barker: Nope. Also, I ate your eraser.

PPS. That drawing isn’t in the book. I’ll share it here when I’m finished. That way it’s like you’re getting a ton of the book for free as a bonus for pre-ordering. Or for thinking about pre-ordering. Or for telling someone to preorder it for you because you are hard to shop for and now your family doesn’t have to just give you a $20 bill for your birthday. EVERYONE WINS.

UPDATED: HOLY SHIT, Y’ALL. It’s #6 on the Amazon bestsellers list. I’m sure it’ll drop back down any second but I can’t tell you what it means to have such an amazing community behind me. DRINKS FOR EVERYONE!

The only thing I wanna see more than the cover of your next book … is the cover of my first book. I guess I should finish writing it, for starters.
Again, I will say: Your artwork is amazing.
Congratulations on your continued success, Jenny. 🙂

Not gonna lie, I REALLY like some of those rejected titles (probably because life feels like a continuous stream of bullshit right now) but I love the thought behind the title you finally chose. We’re all here together. ❤ Metaphorically. I don’t think you’d all fit in my cubicle.

Also, is there a particular place you’d most like us to preorder from? I don’t know how this works. Do you get more ‘credit’ from one site over another or anything?

Why are you so goddamned talented? You can write. You can draw. You can juggle cats. STOP BEING SO TALENTED! We mere mortals don’t stand a chance.
(P.S. Please don’t stop being a goddess. You’re the deity in which I place my faith.)

I’m really looking forward to seeing it. You could put out a book of blank pages and I’d probably buy it. I mean, ideally, don’t do that, because I’d be kinda bummed. But just FYI, I am totally your minion.

P.S. You’ve saved me plenty of times, too. The “Furiously Happy” audiobook is an instant day brightener, even if I’m just lying on the couch in a hermitty bubble, ignoring the big bad world.

Will you be doing a tour with this one? Pretty please – I know they are hard on you – but I would love to meet you – I would drive alone for hours if needed – and I hate traffic – I hyperventilate and white-knuckle it whenever I have to drive in a city.

I personally loved “I’m not allowed to have matches”. I think that title would have been awesome. A bit cumbersome though. I suppose the one you have will just have to do. Congratulations on getting another book out there though!

You do understand that the painfully broken part of your brain is the price you pay for all the outrageously amazing talents you have and that all the wonderment that has come back into your life is because you chose to share the wonderment of your talents with us and not lock yourself in that deep dark hole like so many before you have done, right?

Wow Jenny, this is incredible! I have heard so many wonderful things about your books and how they help people who are struggling with their own anxieties and depression, and I cannot help but think of how much more this new book will be helping people, too. Some of us cannot seem to express what is going on inside and around us through drawings, and that can sometimes add to the frustrations. To be able to see what we might be feeling being expressed on paper can be a good relief. Even better that we can color it if we please as it will still allow us to express these things and become part of the book, in a way.

I love the title you chose and the reason behind it is beautiful. I also got a good laugh at some of the other titles! Maybe you should save them for a rainy day?

Just had a wonderful friend pre-order for both of us, as I’m short in funds right now. I love the community that your writing, and drawings brings together. People the world over are part of this amazing club where everyone understands our bizarre, and often dark minds. We’re all awesome. If it’s not too late, may I make a suggestion as an artist? Please print the drawings one to a page, no back to backs. that way we don’t have to sacrifice one drawing for another!! For some reason I know I will be putting these up!!

this would be so cool in a spiral binding to make it easy to flip open to one page and lay flat. even better if the front or back cover had a full length fold-in page to put behind the current page so that marker won’t bleed through (if the paper isn’t heavy enough to prevent that already). i have already ordered mine and am trying to wait patiently. waiting. waiting. waiting…

Just preordered 2 copies, one for me and one for my best friend! Thank you for your eye-opening responses to life. As a teacher, your insights help me look at students and their families with compassion. My tears, from laughing along with your words and drawings, show a healthy respect for all that you have and continue to experience. Blessings to you and your family and thank you for reaching through your pain and sharing yourself!

So, I’m gonna go back up and read the rest of your post, but this stopped me like I walked into a brick wall and I don’t care what it is, you please must do something that does in fact carry this title:
Completely and Fantastically Lost: An Obscure Guidebook For Misfits and Strangelings
Please and thank you and felicitations and shit 🙂

Perfect title! Reminds me of being lost in a big mall or park, I look at the huge map. Then I see it! YOU ARE HERE. Relief. Te same kind of relief you feel while releasing your creative inner coloring maven. SIGH 🤗

This reminds me of the Wayward Academy philosophy, that the fabulous Kim Rhodes summed up perfectly.
“I don’t know you, but I know you. I’ve got your back.”
We’re all in this together, and that gives me so much hope. ❤️

I have pre-ordered! But please don’t lick me. Nobody gets to lick me. I don’t even like doggy licks. I’m okay with hugs, though. Usually. Or even a handshake, if you’re more comfortable with that. I can’t wait for the surprise in the mail (because I will forget). It will be like an early birthday present if Amazon is at all close to be correct about the publish date. Whee!

So excited! This will be the BEST COLORING BOOK EVER. Will it be available in spiral binding? That’s one of the biggest problems with most coloring books – a stitched/glued binding makes it hard to work because the pages don’t lay flat.

Congratulations on your new book. I just wish it were not a coloring book because oddly enough coloring makes me crazier. I get obsessed with errors, can’t relax, etc. I cannot get into the whole coloring craze. I feel left out. I get the same terrible fears I do if I try to doodle, or zentangle, or anything. I begin to obsess on how awful I am at it. Maybe I am ungiftedly OCD. It must be perfect, and I have no gift. I judge myself too harshly and hear “those voices” criticizing me. I mean, WHO THE HELL CAN’T DOODLE???

I’m so in love with this book idea…I just preordered TWO of them: one for myself and one for my best friend in the world. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read your posts and the comments by your readers and understood what my BFF goes though a little more clearly. This lovely, beautiful, wonderful woman I love more than anyone else survives depression and anxiety on a daily basis, and she falls into the same deep pits that many here have found themselves in. She can’t pull herself for anyone, including her fiancé or me, the people she loves best. Here is where I’ve learned how to be patient and supportive and understanding and most of all, unconditional. That’s what she needs so that is what I try to give. I can’t thank you, Jenny, and this amazing tribe of people enough for everything you share. The least I can do is support your work, because I know it’s going to help others…it’s helped me and it’s helped me help someone I love dearly. THANK YOU.

I LOVE IT AND THE ENTIRE BOOK (sorry for yelling, but just so excited!) It’s already one of my 3 favorite books…can you guess the other two?? 😘💖 Love you Jenny, you are my HERO and I will be preordering as soon as I get the money!! Thank You, Thank You and Thank You!

I just pre-ordered my copy (copies..?), too…but dang…we have to wait until March, 2017??? Crap, now I have to shop for Christmas presents after all…or,hmm. I could give fancy ‘IOUs’ and then present the book three months after Christmas..

How thoughtful of your publishers to release the book one day before my birthday. Happy Birthday to me! I’m going to have to find a room in my home where I can hang up all the art I can fit in from this book. Maybe the foyer, so people will know what they’re getting into as soon as they walk in the door. Thank you for sharing your art with us!

I can’t tell you how happy and excited I am for this to come out. Having recently discovered the soothing benefits of adult coloring books (that sounds way naughtier than it is) I can’t wait for yours.

Pre-ordered! And now I have to practice patience… of which I have none.
I have to find something to take my mind off the wait so I think I will start stalking my postman now. I can only imagine he will find this charmingly endearing and therefore be at my door straight away on the release date. Or maybe sooner. Cause that’s how it works right? That’s the kind of power postpeople wield over the book making process.?.
This is so happening. Time to go meet my new best friend!

TAKE MY MONEY.
No, really. My hands and my colored pencils can’t wait to have this book.
And thank you so much for sharing your drawings and your crazy. The crazy in me recognizes and honors the crazy in you.

Holy crap I have to wait til MARCH? I CAN’T WAIT THAT LONG. I will most definitely forget and possibly even buy a second one because I didn’t realize I’d ordered this one. But I did and it will be one of the most amazing random gifts to myself ever. Thank you!

I have a thought (well, sometimes more, but one for now). This would probably be too much of a personal intrusion for both of you, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. Victor tries to stay in the background of your blog-life. Would he consider sharing some ideas about how he takes care of himself and how he helps/interacts with you when you are fighting your battles? Partners have a unique position but are sometimes largely invisible in their own struggles with helping someone they love. There are few published works that is specifically written for the partners. Thank you for all you do and thank you to your family for supporting you and sharing you.

Usually I just lurk, but had to say Fantastic Title!!!
Perhaps they could leave just a little white space so we could all write our favorite alternate title on the cover as a sub title?
Ordering as soon as I get home.

If i pre-order 4 will it happen faster? No? SOLD ANYWAYS! 💙 I already have “Just Because You Can’t See It…” framed on my wall and love it so. i want a clean book and one to color and two to give away to the two people i love best but i will still wave and waggle mine at everyone i don’t love best and demand they get their own. I’M SO EXCITED!

Perfect cover. Self portrait in the middle? Going to wait a bit to order…I’d hate to order it and be somewhere else when it ships but definitely plan to get at least a copy (though the whole premise of writing in a book is kind or weird to me, so maybe one copy to keep and one to color?).

No way am I going to color this in… But I’d gladly give it a place on my shelf so I van look at your stunning, thought provoking art. You are a gift. And gifted. And the world is better with you in it.

i’m so excited. and i’m glad someone else said that coloring is stressful to them. i find it the most stressful, least helpful, anxiety inducing horror. i think it’s because i’m a visual artist and i feel like it has to be perfect. i would prefer it not to be spiral bound, because i’m a bookbinder. but they do make those spiral bounds that have a perforation near the edge, so you can have the benefit of spiral bound, while those of us who are just going to rip the pages out and hang them still have a nice clean edge. that would be nice. the drawing on the left reminds me of something from pokemon. i’m new at that, so i can’t remember what it is. some kind of icon, not a pokemon itself. anyway, i absolutely love your drawings. they are superb. and i enjoy seeing you, so i’m hoping maybe you return to chicago. i always cry when i see you, but it’s a good cry.

thank you so much for everything you do. you have helped me immensely. and thanks for #theBloggessTribe. so nice.

I want to be your non stalkerish best friend who drinks wine and then comes up with ridiculous antics (read funny land mines that shoot out sticky confetti when stepped on). Or just coming up with 9000 ideas that we are way to lazy/drunk to follow through with.
I once threw all items from my apartment, when j was in college and not in my right mind) and was completely baffled on why the neighbors called the cops. I would go Steiger up Rambo if some dumb college student did that to me now, but at the time it was uproariously funny. Even the police officers left chuckling. We got a warning and our hung over asses had to collect out belonging the next day. I ramble. I freak out. I hide in my bedroom eating cherries and hoping those I hate are blowing chunks with each pit. So that’s me. Hi, my name is Shayne and I have major depressive disorder.

March 7, 2017 is it? I’ll be very very patient. I restrained myself and only ordered two. I love all your alternate titles, though. Maybe I’ll print them for bookmarks. Thanks for all your hard work! ❤

Thank you, Jenny, for sharing your drawings. Coloring has been a way to keep me afloat when I can’t access words. So this means you’re helping me AGAIN as I learn to manage my own crazy. Preordering now!

Woo-freakin’-hoo! Just in time for my birthday, I’ll have to tell everyone to order me one. Or maybe just one person, so I don’t get a ton of them. Then again, since I tend to put things in “safe places” and never see them again, maybe I need a ton of them…

Personally “Feeling Stabby: A sophisticated coloring book to soothe troublesome minds” was my favorite, but the title you picked suits it much better!

I am gonna color the shit out of this book if I can ever finish the Cyberman/Victorian themed page in my Doctor Who coloring book. (It’s Cybermen, and hot air balloons, and a mansion on a damask background, and a pain in the ass to color)

Excellent work Jenny! I’ll pre-order it from Amazon. I still am reading “Furiously Happy’ but can’t read it at night because it makes me laugh too hard and then I can’t sleep because I’m laughing. You’re the BOMB Jenny!

Can’t wait to get it! And I love the title. It’s kind of like when you’re lost, then you see a sign with a map and the words “You Are Here”. Then suddenly you have a location, a direction and a destination.

I am super excited to see the cover and so happy that you’ve decided to make a book out of your drawings. They are so beautiful and haunting and I am heading over to pre-order this right now! (At Amazon.ca, though, so hopefully it’s available for pre-order there as well. If not, you might hear me cursing from there.)

I LOVE IT!!! Although I love, and use, the phrase “Feeling stabby”, and was all for that as the title, as soon as I saw You Are Here, I just knew it was the perfect title. Jenny, you are so talented and brave and we all love you so much. You are my spirit animal. ❤

Dearest Jenny, I jhave been thinking about getting into coloring ever since I saw how you used drawing to quieten the crazies in your head. So I just preordered your coloring book. Now I have to go out and buy another coloring book so I can practice before yours arrives. Because what if I mess it up? What if I can’t do justice to your beautiful, heartbreaking designs? Yeah, my head is crowded with a few crazies right now. Thank you for showing me that my crazies can be beautiful in their own way, if I can find the courage to let them see the light of day.

I love the title, I love your previous two books, and I love you. Seriously, Let’s Pretend This Never Happened was one of only two things that could make me laugh when I was in a really dark place in my life (the other was Parks and Recreation). I’ve recommended both books to so many people. I’m 100% buying this one!

Thank you Jenny your talent is amazing. I’m ordering 3, 2 for me and 1 for my niece. We love you❤️
This will be torture waiting though. Instant gratification!!! Go! Go! 😁
And please use feeling stabby somewhere in your next book. Thought I was the only one. 👍🏻

I’m reading a book titled “You. Are. The. One.” by Kute Blackson. In the prologue, he writes about a beggar he saw in India, on a broiling hot day when all the author wanted was to find an air-conditioned room and a comfortable bed. But there was this beggar, drumming and singing with great rapture, eyes closed. And Blackson noticed that the guy was blind, which was why his eyes were closed, and singing without need for recognition. Furthermore, the guy had no arms, and was playing the drum with his stumps. And he had no legs! At this point, Blackson was a mess, weeping over this wonderful man who had nothing, yet seemed so happy. He knelt before the beggar and said, “How do you do it?” and the beggar said, “What else is there to do but love?” He said, “Young man, life might give you what you want. Life may never give you what you want. But you can always give life who you are.” After awhile, Blackson stood up to leave, wanting to give him something, but the beggar said, “I don’t need your money. Just share your gifts with the world. Who you are is a gift. By not sharing who you really are with the world, you are robbing them of something they need.”

Why do I share this story with you? Because, Jenny, you are a gift to the world. You share with us who you really are. Thank you.

TWO days before my birthday! Excellent! I am so excited, I have wanted to color in your drawings since I saw the first one! Although I really love them in B&W too. Hmm. Maybe TWO copies are required. Thanks, Jenny’s nervous hands…

I’m SO EXCITED!! Pre-order–DONE. Have one to color, one to keep (archive special original), and two for gifts (so far). I can’t wait until March… totally unfair. But, I’ll try and be patient. Hrmpf! And, Squuuuueeeeeeee! Thank you, Bloggess! 🙂

That is awesome. I am SOOOO looking forward to this when it comes out.

I just finished “Furiously Happy”, which is awesome. Thank you for sharing your wonderfully fucked up mind with us. It makes me feel less alone, here in the dark with my own amazingly asshole brain and my constant companions Depression and Soul-Eating Anxiety.

Eeeeeeee! Just screamed like a little girl. Can’t wait. My daughter and I love your first two books. My mother- in-law introduced your book to my daughter and then my daughter inriduced it to me. Thank you for being you.

See, I originally read this before you updated, or tweeted your status (I retweeted when you were only at #24 on Amazon’s bestseller list!). or updated again. I think I shall pre-order it In Person at my local Big-n-Nasty, erm, ah, ‘scuse me Barnes and Noble, since that allows me to also get some more steps in today.

SO proud of you, M’Lady! This is truly “The Big Time”. Bask in all your glory, surround yourself with the furbabies and stuffed ones, and have Victor fan you with whatever Texas has similar to giant palm fronds, while Hailey drops grapes into your mouth. Be careful not to tilt your head too far back – don’t wanna choke! The rest of us out here will dance around, nekkid, of course, in the privacy of our own homes if that is our wont, clapping and chanting and playing little finger cymbals. Let the revelries COMMENCE!

I’m super excited for your book, and to reward you for catering to my need for more of your awesomely funny commentary on life and all things that make me smile, I took this picture for you when on vacation in the ever popular WISCONSIN DELLS! Yes, this is where I vacationed this year. Land of swimming in other people’s (gag…hack…kkkhhhh) who knows what. Anyhow, we went to a very strange freak show thing and this is how they guy was collecting tips. I loved it, and of course, immediately thought of you. So, without further adieu…a raccoon, wearing a pimp hat, eating cotton candy (well, except the cotton candy was gone and it was filled with singles because the freak show guy was collecting tips in it).
DANG IT!!!!! I can’t put a picture in this…well, I tweeted it to you…maybe you’ll see it 😦

I have no idea how to colour (I be Canadian friends leave my spelling alone) but I am still excited regardless. I like the black and white seems like a perfect decoration for my dorm room and a great reminder and a million times better than those “motivational” posters.

I’m going to order it on amazon after it’s been release only because they don’t charge your card until the book has been shipped maybe? And when I buy something online and use my card, I am making a obvious effort to spend money at that exact time…not in over half a year. haha. So I shall order it…but not for quite a while. But I am super excited! You’re amazing!

I looked at the release date at was like ‘whaaaaaaaaaaat? That’s like two years away!’ …then I realized it’s less than a year… o.o
I will totally preorder, but can I get it without the lick, please? Thanks!

I remember when you first started sharing your drawings, Jenny, and I thought they were incredible. Like many others, I thought they would make an excellent book. You’ve gone one better, though, by making it a coloring book. It will be awesome, just as you are.

Once it’s released we should do a book club! You know… a COLORING book club.. which is like regular book club, only with more coloring and less discussion and we will decide on a page to color and then all share how we’ve done it! It’s the best kind of “I don’t want to see people” book club because staying at home coloring. 😀

This is SO BEAUTIFUL Jenny!! Thank you so much for such an important reminder that we are all in this together, are not alone and HERE. Grateful for you! And holy christ on a cross, did I just pre-order a book that doesn’t come out for 8 months?! AND I didn’t even know a book could be on the NYT list before it’s published. Amazed! Congrats!!!

cannot ever say it enough, you have saved me! in soooooooooo many ways!!!!!! I have told both my therapists about your books and how much they have helped me in my life to understand myself and allow myself to be me. you are amazing and so multi-talented. I thank you again and I’m so excited about your upcoming coloring book! Preordered!!!! Congratulations on #1!!!! Thank you thank you thank you

Oh! & My holidays since I was a lil’ tot always made me feel”stab!stab!stab! Runawayyyyy!!!!” This reminds me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail when they approached the French castle and get a cow tossed at them and scream “run away!!! run away!!”

Actually, I initially thought perhaps you were behind it, but if so your sleight-of-hand is too powerful for me, oh-puppet-master.
Thanks for all of the joy you have brought me (and the poor saps in my karass to whom I pass on your gems). It seems to me that your ongoing efforts to ease your own suffering do quite a bit to ease the suffering of others fortunate enough to wander into your Venn diagram. (No euphemism intended – I love Victor, too, but from afar and in a manly, punch-in-the-arm sort of manner.)
And for the (new) art. Hugs, MP.

P.S. “Victorian Taxidermy Tableaux” would be a great name for my bluegrass punk heavy metal country band, if I had one.

I Pre-ordered mine! I’ll be so happily surprised in March. Also, too, love the new drawing with the kitty cats. Would love a copy with Dorothy Barker drool, but will settle for printing one off at home and maybe having my cat step on it. 😉

Even without your glorious writing ability? I think you could easily have had a career as an artist. These drawings are amazing – with a style that is obviously all your own. I love the cat in the unfinished drawing with your helpful pooch in it. Just amazing! I’m so glad you are in the world to share these talents with the rest of us.

Ok I’m guessing you did this on purpose … Regardless I got a kick out of it and maybe someone else will too. The sentence above says: ‘Come here and let me lick you! ‘ Then the next sentence below it begins ‘ A few places where…’
Blahahahahahaaa! Did this crack anyone else up? Or is it just me??
I look forward to. Your new book! I’m sure it will be FaNTaSTiCaL!!

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Hi Jenny … LOVED your book “Furiously Happy”, lent it to a friend who has PTSD from working as a paramedic. I started taking an AD to deal with menopause symptoms (including mild anxiety) and here I am two days in, 3 a.m. unable to sleep AT ALL. So will come back off them before they take hold. Thanks for your honesty and funny-ness! Good luck with the new book. Sure I will be purchasing it. 🙂

AAAAHHHHH -falls over from internal fangirl overload- Not only are you an awesome author and person, that I personally got to meet in Cedar Rapids Iowa, you’re an artist too; another great passion of mine! You inspire me mentally, emotional and now artistically! Doodles are the greatest thing in the world and now I think I have found the motivation to get out of my HUGE artist block!

YOU DO YOUR OWN COVER ART???? I was seriously about to comment asking who the heck does your artwork because I want to look up & gawk at all their stuff, but then DANGIT, it’s you. Thanks for being so freaking good at everything.

(The drawing on the cover are mine, but the cover itself was designed by the same awesome cover designer that did the Furiously Happy cover. Philip Pascuzzo is a genius. ~ Jenny)

I’m ordering your new book today! You are my hero. Not because you are perfect, but precisely because you are not. You are honest. And you are funny. And even when life, or your body, or your mind knocks you down you find a way to get up and move on. Like you, I struggle with chronic health issues and live with mental illness. Your books and your blog are bright spots in sometimes very bleak days. Thank you for being you!

Your book is being released on my daughter’s birthday, so, of course, I had to pre-order it for her! Will you be coming back to Atlanta after its release for another book signing? Would love for you to autograph it!

I can’t believe this is happening! Thank you Jenny for making this book happen! I’ve been looking forward to it ever since you started posting your doodles. They are amazing and I just finished pre-ordering 3 of them so I can give them to my girlfriends who find themselves needing a little pick-me-up every now and then. You are amazing!

Congratulations, Jenny! The drawings that you have shared here hold so much soul and layers of story – they are truly art. Thank you for tapping into that within you and sharing – scary as heck, I;m sure; but so amazing when it all pours out and almost writes itself! I look forward to seeing the full and final product!

This is really cool, Jenny. Congratulations. I’ve enjoyed seeing your drawings pop up in my Instagram feed over the past few months and am not at all surprised that they’re being published. They are beautiful.

I apologize, ma’am, but i did not pre-order. Mainly because I want to buy it from my local independent, Boswell Books, when they offer it for pre-order. You may remember them….or maybe not. But WE remember YOU….

(I do remember them! And I support this decision. Support your local indie bookshop whenever you can. 🙂 ~ Jenny)

The words that you have written in these drawings are the types of words I search for on quote websites. I try to write notes to put in my teenage daughter’s lunch box every now an then, when she needs a little reminder to keep on keeping on, even when she prefers to hide away. I look forward to giving this amazing new book of yours to her for a stocking stuffer. Thanks for continuing to keep on keeping on and allowing us to be on this journey with you.

Jenny, are you for real?? Really, are you really a real person?? I just got your book “Let’s pretend it never happened” and I can’t still still long enough without grabbing it and then calling my sister to read bits and parts of it and wait till the two of us have laughed so hard we both have to stop or throw up. You would fit so well into our truly Polish family and your mind works like ours do, only with much more to say than we ever thought possible. Thank you, thank you, thank you for being the writer you are. I have not laughed as much as in the past three days — you are incredibly and certifiably crazy, but that’s okay cause me, my sister and, well actually my entire family (I’m still working on my husband) are too. Love, love, love you! Barb Harmon, Aurora, OH

You are Awesome, and I thank you for your hard work and dedication to our community of misfits and strangelings. I SO look forward to your next book! You are Lovely! I want you to know that what you write here helps me, and SO may others, and I deeply appreciate your efforts. ,<3